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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 64, 20 November 1875, Page 3

The Hong Kong Times tells the following remarkable story :—“ We have been told of a most extraordinary domestic episode as having occurred quite recently in a Ningpo family residing in our midst. It seemb that a married Chinaman Avas in the habit of giving his Avife much cause for jealousy, which, from the circumstances recounted to us, appears to haA r e been only too well founded. The lady bore it for a long time, but at last wearied out by the infidelities of her spouse, attempted to commit suicide with opium during his absence. Word avas brought to him one evening that his wife Avas in a dying condition, and on hastening back he found the unfortunate woman only too unmistakably iu a very precarious state. Kepentant, but too late, he cast about for some means of saving her life, when the bystanders A'olunteered the A'uluablc information that the blood of a live eel avouKl, if poured or dropped upon the tongue of a dying Avomau, infallibly work a W bother this marvellous result would have followed or not, Ave cannot say ; but, iu excess of his zeal, thehusbaud hold the writhing slippery creature so near to his poor Avife’s opeii mouth that it actually fell in, and slipped down into her stomach ! Tins horrible occurrence naturally created the utmost agony among the surrounding friends, but the case avus hopeless. The frantic contortions of the eel in its new sphere caused the unfortunate avoiiuui the most heartrending torture, and it was a quarter of an hour before death mercifully put au end to her suii’erings.”